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Show ... 1 1 . W w , 1 ....... I 3 f 1 I! 4 f i ' V ! ! j f labor will be the only limit placed on building. At present there is work for 500 more men ia Salt Lake City. Carpenters Car-penters will have moro than they can do. That the Salt Lake real estate market mar-ket it attractive and a place of opportunities oppor-tunities is shovra by the arrival during the week of a number of Kansas City contractors, who will receive several contracts. According to their views Salt Lake looks like a place with a brilliant future to persons on the outside. v ' - Ealt Lake real estate Is dastined to again move this year In greater volume tian ever be'ore la the tistory of Zioa. Tna month of JJarch closed today with a greater number of tales and larger ones than for tiie corresponding month a year ago. . Although the week was as a rule, slow, It rounded out a month that made the dirt sellers feel chesty. The month closed under the brightest of prospects and there is no doubt but that April will be the greatest real estate month that Salt-Lake City has ever seen, even better than the famous boom times. It is caused by the actual work on the much-talked-of Kewhouse properties commencing. Work commenced on the first of the Newhouse buildings yesterday. It was the starting of the excavating. Some twenty-five men were at work this morning and Monday will see at least 200 men employed. Already the building season has commenced com-menced and it will progress as never before. .Last year something over 500 new homes and flats were added to Salt Lake City. . This year materia and It is understood that several Eastern" contractors will be in the market within with-in a few weeks, making bids on local improvements, -,..'., One of the signs of prosperity Is the changing ef business properties. Daring Dar-ing the past month more restaurants and rooming-houses have changed hands than for many months past. . ' -' At the present time houses that are for sale are hard to find and most of the buildings that are going up. are for homes. The residence district is outstripping the business district in a manner that is surprising. Most people peo-ple do not realize the rapid growth of the residence district which will shortly force the business district to increase in 'size and give greater opportunities to customers. Like the growth of all other cities the business district is the slowest in moving to the front. At the present time there are some excellent opportunities in business property and with them go good opportunities to eater ea-ter business. The residence section is moving farther far-ther out from the heart of the city. Suburban property is more in demand this year than ever before. Its sale is brisk and affords excellent opportunities opportuni-ties for quick exchanges. 8 alt Lake City has not realized that it has aa opportunity for the most beautiful beau-tiful suburbs in the -world. People from the outside are becoming more aware of this and are investing. "There is a world of people coming here," said a real estate agent yesterday. yester-day. "Every day a number of strangers strang-ers come into my office and inquire for houses. They are looking for the hardest hard-est thing on the market 'to obtain houses to rent. If I get two or three a day there are many others that do the same, so that there are scores of new people coming in daily. Many of these persons want to buy homes. ' 'Last year I believe that 10,000 persons per-sons or more came to Salt Lake City and this year It will be the greatest In the history of the city. Business Is strong and healthy and there is no tendency ten-dency to boom things. Mining Is developing de-veloping in Nevada and Utah will get her share of this." The proposed plan for ten miles of new sidewalks in the northwestern part of the city will cause quite a stir in property in that section of the city, declared de-clared a real estate dealer this morning. morn-ing. It will make the West Side prosper. pros-per. It will be the means of removing a great objection that has been raised. Heretofore buyers have handled West Side propertv tenderly, declaring that the property within the proposed sidewalk side-walk district is too low. The building of the sidewalk will mean the building of more houses in the district and the I removal of all objections. |